Liyang Cangcheng.

More than 100,000 Xiaoguo troops have blocked the four gates of Liyang Cang, besieging the city of Liyang Cang, and more than 200 trebuchets and rushing cars have beaten this Cangcheng with a radius of more than ten miles and can be called a strong fortress. On the city wall of more than two zhang, cracks abound, and on the city wall in the west and south of the city, a large gap of more than three zhang wide has been opened, if it is not for the three fences that have been urgently built inside, I am afraid that it has already been breached.

The moat around the city wall, which is more than ten miles long and five zhang wide, has already been filled with sandbags, and the corpses of the Xiaoguo army and the Wei army under the city wall have been piled up three or five feet high. Burned, broken storming vehicles, ladders piled up on top of the corpses, and the whole battlefield smelled of rancidity.

On a high ground in the west of the city, a wooden castle with a circumference of two miles and a height of two zhang has been erected overnight, and every Wei soldier at the head of Liyang Cangcheng can clearly see the golden roof on this castle, which is where Yang Guang's temporary camp is located.

Since a day ago, because of the delay in attacking Liyang Cangcheng, Yang Guang moved the camp to the front line, overnight, this wooden city appeared in the sky, and the royal flag fluttering high was a shot of strength to the Xiaoguo soldiers who had been fighting hard day and night for half a month, and the morale was gradually a little depressed.

But Yang Guang is not happy at all now, before he first arrived in Liyang, the Sui army was like a bamboo, and the battle was very easy. The easy victory greatly increased the confidence and fighting spirit of the Northern Expedition Wang Division, and the tsunami-like sound of 200,000 soldiers made Yang Guang very useful!

This reminded Yang Guang of his predecessor Emperor Yang of Sui who used to tour the Turks, destroy Tuyuhun in the west, conquer Goguryeo in the east, and even take a big dragon boat to the Jiangdu and go to Zhuo County, he also had this kind of imperial style, and on the battlefield, such a cheer of soldiers made him feel more marshal outside the emperor, he was firmly in control of the army, the trend of the world, and the fate of all living beings, which made Yang Guang, who was a little vain, satisfied from the bottom of his heart.

This wonderful feeling is a sense of accomplishment and steadfastness that Yang Guang has never experienced before, and he even sleeps at night much more steadily.

But today's Yang Guang is not in the mood to enjoy this kind of sound of mountain shouting, since the battle of Yongjiqu, the battle in Liyang has been nearly a month, although the situation is not bad now, but the Northern Expedition Wang Shi can not afford to delay, the problem of grain and grass has been troubled in Yang Guang's heart. Although Yang Guang has been collecting grain and grass everywhere since he set out on the expedition, according to this trend of becoming less and less, I am afraid it will only be enough to eat for another month.

The long-term inability to capture Liyang Cangcheng made those brave men who were counting on the iron-blooded siege of the city, killing after breaking the city, grabbing money, grain, and head, but the Sui army could only fight, and if it did not take Liyang Cangcheng, it would not be able to enter the eastern capital, and the Sui army would not have enough grain and grass, so the problem of grain and grass would always linger in Yang Guang's heart and linger.

Since Yang Guang adopted Xue Rengui's strategy, the Sui army wantonly incorporated the strong among the captives into the army, and eliminated the old, weak, sick and disabled into the baggage camp, so that the left and right Wuwei soldiers totaled 80,000 people, and the 50,000 or 60,000 sailors who came to Hu'er and more than 30,000 cavalry regiments in the Xiaoguo army surrounded Xu Shiji's camp, and Lai Hu'er surrounded Liyang with the remaining more than 100,000 cavalry of the Xiaoguo army.

At this time, Xu Gai in Cangcheng has no way to retreat, if Liyang Cangcheng is breached, Xu Shiji's camp outside the city will inevitably collapse and the whole army will collapse, for his son, Xu Gai can only fight to the death!

Although there were only more than 40,000 Wei troops in Liyang Cangcheng, in order to defend the city, Xu Gai organized the people of the whole city, and the young men went to the city to help defend, and the women and the old and weak were responsible for cooking every day, and the food in the city was sufficient, as long as it could hold on, it must be the Sui army that could not support it first.

At this time, outside the city of Liyangcang, ten thousand drums sounded in unison, since the first morning dawn appeared in the sky, more than 100,000 Xiaoguo troops began to assemble again, the direction of the four city gates, are a large number of black pressure Sui army steel forest, long lance invaded the sky and a half, wheel knives and sunshine, a cloud ladder has been prepared, more than 30,000 Sui army archers lined up in a column of shooting formation, standing at the forefront of the whole army, more than 200 catapults have also been pushed to the attack position, just waiting for an order, will be arrows and stones, with a fierce arrow storm, Destroy this stubborn city once and for all.

Yang Guang looked at the Liyang city wall worriedly, looked at the few Wei troops at the head of the city, and the broken banners of the words "Xu" and "Wei", and said with a complicated face: "More than two hundred catapults keep throwing corpses, our soldiers are not afraid of death, such an attack of intensity, the Wei army seems to be completely unable to gain a foothold in the city, what can they do, can they hold for so long?" ”

The corners of Lai Hu'er's mouth twitched, and he said: "Shengshang, this Xu Gai is very cunning, every time our army prepares with a catapult storm like this, they will hide their troops in the hidden hole under the inner wall of the city wall, leaving only a small number of people to observe the situation through some observation eyes in the wall, and when our army attacks, their people will climb up to the head of the city to fight." Moreover, Xu Gai took the sons and nephews of their Xu family to fight in person, and scattered all the family wealth, opened the granary of the treasury, and promised heavy profits to his subordinates, and the Wei army's will to fight was very tenacious. Our army is the besieging party, so it naturally suffers, and the Wei army relies on the advantage of the city wall, and if our army wants to break the city, I am afraid it will take some time! ”

Yang Guang let out a soft "oh" and asked, "Clamping the wall?" What do you mean? Is the middle of this wall empty, and there are still people who can hide in it and observe? ”

Lai Hu'er nodded and replied: "Yes, Xu Gai has already hollowed out the middle of some areas of the city wall and made some small rooms, which can accommodate a few to a dozen people, or even dozens of people, specifically to observe the movements of our army, because the head of the city is too dangerous, and they will not be able to gain a foothold under such stone blows and bow and arrow shooting from our army." And every time our army stops long-range attacks and then the infantry lands the city, they will kill from these sandwich walls and hidden soldiers' holes, and the Wei army on the side of the road under the city will also go to the city to hold on. ”

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